Thrombopenic purpura complicating pregnancy is a rare condition and carries a high mortality. Rushmore1in 1925 made a thorough review of the literature on the subject and collected a total of 47 cases. A report by DeSaussire and Townsend2disclosed 55 cases up to 1935, and of the total of 52 cases in which the final results were known there was a mortality of 55.7 per cent. Sanford, Leslie and Crane3in their review of the literature listed 11 cases in which the fetus also showed a purpura similar to the mother's, and they added a case of their own. Rushmore quoted a case of Dohrn's in which the fetus exhibited petechiae similar to the mother's, one of Greenhill's in 1923 in which there was a recurrence of purpura in a succeeding pregnancy and one of Vignes and Strassnie's in 1921 in which the purpura recurred in